Tanya
15-06-06, 20:16
Hi all,
I'm Tanya from Canada. 31 years old and suffering from anxiety all my life. I'm guessing its social anxiety that most gets me and like so many others who suffer from this, I find it very difficult to be social.
Its definitely a lonely life and I find most people just don't understand.
Until I was 22 I was doing pretty well with keeping the anxiety down. I was in College for two years and then moved on to University, but unfortunately in '98 there was a car accident and everything went haywire.
My anxiety just went totally out of control and I ended up with a neck injury that forced me to leave university three years into my degree and unable to work. Suddenly what little I could handle went out the window. My pain levels causes my neck to break out in a rash and the more it hurts the larger the rash. It makes me very self conscious.
I can't explain the total extent of my symptoms because it would take a book, but I've read some of the threads here from others and find myself in many of your words.
On top of that I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Chronic fatigure and a batty of other things along the way that just keeps me inside.
I'm a member of a few other support groups and am hoping this one will make me feel better as well. I look forward to meeting you all and hopefully having a chat.
I know its difficult to get it from this post, but what has gotten me through this up til now is my family (my mom suffers along side me) and my sense of humor. Most of the time I laugh a lot at myself, but at the moment I'm not finding it so funny. Hopefully sometime soon you'll get to see that side of me. [}:)]
[:I]Tanya
I'm Tanya from Canada. 31 years old and suffering from anxiety all my life. I'm guessing its social anxiety that most gets me and like so many others who suffer from this, I find it very difficult to be social.
Its definitely a lonely life and I find most people just don't understand.
Until I was 22 I was doing pretty well with keeping the anxiety down. I was in College for two years and then moved on to University, but unfortunately in '98 there was a car accident and everything went haywire.
My anxiety just went totally out of control and I ended up with a neck injury that forced me to leave university three years into my degree and unable to work. Suddenly what little I could handle went out the window. My pain levels causes my neck to break out in a rash and the more it hurts the larger the rash. It makes me very self conscious.
I can't explain the total extent of my symptoms because it would take a book, but I've read some of the threads here from others and find myself in many of your words.
On top of that I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Chronic fatigure and a batty of other things along the way that just keeps me inside.
I'm a member of a few other support groups and am hoping this one will make me feel better as well. I look forward to meeting you all and hopefully having a chat.
I know its difficult to get it from this post, but what has gotten me through this up til now is my family (my mom suffers along side me) and my sense of humor. Most of the time I laugh a lot at myself, but at the moment I'm not finding it so funny. Hopefully sometime soon you'll get to see that side of me. [}:)]
[:I]Tanya